ALSensing: Human Activity Recognition using WiFi based on Active Learning

Abstract

Over the past years, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has shown its great value and has been further developed with the help of deep learning. However, existing HAR systems that use deep learning methods to achieve the ideal accuracy of recognition heavily rely on massive amounts of labeled training samples. Unfortunately, it requires considerable human effort and is unrealistic for real-life applications. In this paper, we propose a novel system, which combines active learning with WiFi-based HAR. The system is capable of building a good activities recognizer in HAR with a limited amount of labeled training samples. We thus call the system ALSensing. To the best of our knowledge, ALSensing is the first system to apply active learning to WiFi-based HAR. We implement ALSensing using commercial WiFi devices and evaluated it with realistic data in several different environments. Our experimental results show that ALSensing achieves 52.83% recognition accuracy using 3.7% training samples, 58.97% recognition accuracy using 15% training samples and the baseline predicted with the existing method achieves 62.19% recognition accuracy using 100% training samples. When the performance of ALSensing is similar to that of the baseline, the required labeled samples are much less than that of the baseline.